Please *always* remember when reading herbal remedies to make sure you know which plant is being used--get the Latin name and put it in google images (or whatever your preference) to make sure you know the plant. Common names of plants vary from place to place, even among English-speaking peoples.

Thank you, Rowena, for including the Latin name of the plant you call Chickweed! Saralou
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On 9/13/2010 2:43 AM, Rowena wrote:She said that in future she wouldn't use black salve on the face because
of the big scar it leaves, but she would use chick weed. (Jethro Kloss
in "Back to Eden" says it is one of the best remedies for external
application to ... skin diseases, tumors, cancer, and all kinds of
wounds.
http://middlepath.com.au/plant/Chickweed_Stellaria-media_Caryophyllaceae.php
also lists chickweed as being used in treating cancer.)  Here in
Australia, however, one has to wait until winter before it grows.  She
says the action is quite different with the chickweed - I think she said
it kind of oozes away.


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